Creation Scientists To Search for Talking Snake Bones in Africa

[triadboy]

Christians have The Talking Snake Theory, and Atheists have Evolution

Ya gotta love Landover Baptist!



http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0604/snake.html

[DangerousBeliefs]

I love that site..


http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0500/femsoul.html

[Jessica Blue]

Creation Studies Institute, are spending almost a million dollars, and investing countless hours to gather the evidence needed to prove, without a doubt, to the secular scientific community, that the planet Earth was once populated with walking, talking snakes

It still is. They're called politicians.

[Quester_X]

It still is. They're called politicians.

Shame on you! That's an insult to the snakes. Poor reptiles, haven't they suffered enough persecution?

[triadboy]

Originally posted by Quester_X


Shame on you! That's an insult to the snakes. Poor reptiles, haven't they suffered enough persecution?

I agree - God ripped off their legs and damned them to a lifetime of 'eating dust'. Politicians have their legs...although many of them fart dust.

[Iacchus]

Hey I had this dream once where I was walking down this dirt road and a coyote approached me, saying, "Hey, I'm not going to eat you, I'm not going to eat you, I'm not going to eat you ..." And I'm going, "What the heck, I don't trust this bugger at all," and I wound up my right leg, thinking, "I'm going to kick this sucker in the head if nothing else." And I let go, and for some reason there was a slight hesitation, and I woke up, and bam! I kicked the wall next to side of my bed!

So in that sense it suggests to me that talking serpents do exist, even if only in our dreams. And so lends itself to the notion of a possible mythological construct. You also have to understand that back in the old days people took these things much more seriously, in part because they had much closer ties with nature. So, does that make them wrong necessarily for believing in such things? I wouldn't think so.

[Yahweh]

Originally posted by Iacchus
So in that sense it suggests to me that talking serpents do exist, even if only in our dreams. And so lends itself to the notion of a possible mythological construct. You also have to understand that back in the old days people took these things much more seriously, in part because they had much closer ties with nature. So, does that make them wrong necessarily for believing in such things? I wouldn't think so.
More appropriately, when you take the idea of the serpent cursed to the ground in the context with the setting of Genesis, you begin to see motif arising:

* Man is created from the dust of the Earth
* Eden is a lush paradise, until Adam and Eve anger God and are banished to the wasteland of Nod
* Cain is ordered to work the ground for food
* The serpent is forced to live life on the ground to "eat the dust of the Earth"

Its not necessarily that believing in talking snakes or such things is wrong or right, its merely that the snake serves as a catalyst to emphasize the motif of geography and the earth in Genesis. Generally, the ground represents God's attitude (lushness = happy god, desolation = unhappy god, flooding Earth = angry God).

[evildave]

And naturally snakes everywhere around the world get the short end of the stick when people with these "snakes evil" fixation spot them.

There's an important lesson in there somewhere. Of course, when you look hard enough, there are 'important lessons' in everything.

[RichardR]

Checkout the books at the spoof amazon.com site. (http://www.landoverbaptist.org/talkingsnake.html)

These guys have certainly put a lot of effort into this.

[tedly]

Originally posted by evildave
And naturally snakes everywhere around the world get the short end of the stick when people with these "snakes evil" fixation spot them.

There's an important lesson in there somewhere. Of course, when you look hard enough, there are 'important lessons' in everything.

And now the sermon:
"And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate:
A pettiness.

D.H. Lawrence
The Snake (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1282.html)

[triadboy]

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the snake steals the sprig of everlasting life from Gilgamesh. That explains why snakes shed their skin.

[Iacchus]

Originally posted by Yahweh

Its not necessarily that believing in talking snakes or such things is wrong or right, its merely that the snake serves as a catalyst to emphasize the motif of geography and the earth in Genesis. Generally, the ground represents God's attitude (lushness = happy god, desolation = unhappy god, flooding Earth = angry God). So, when we circumcise ourselves and shed our skin, doesn't it in fact look like the head of snake? Perhaps circumcision is to serve as a reminder, as to the nature of our fall and, from whence we came?

I also understand that in the Orient, the serpent is revered as a symbol of eternity.

[davidhorman]

So, when we circumcise ourselves

That must take a lot of... nevermind.

I'd rather you'd said "if" rather than "when" too.

David

[triadboy]

Originally posted by Iacchus
So, when we circumcise ourselves and shed our skin, doesn't it in fact look like the head of snake?

My God!! You circumsized yourself?! No wonder it looks like a snake. I had someone else do mine - mine looks like a small roll of antacids.

[Iacchus]

Actually I used Occam's razor. :D

[Polux]

Browsing through the Landover Baptist site (real fun, but too much to read!), I came across with something that is surely old news for most of you. And at first I thought it was a joke: Bush's statement that atheists should not be considered citizens.

I'M SHOCKED. :re:

[triadboy]

Originally posted by Pólux
Browsing through the Landover Baptist site (real fun, but too much to read!), I came across with something that is surely old news for most of you. And at first I thought it was a joke: Bush's statement that atheists should not be considered citizens.

I'M SHOCKED. :re:

Yep, that was Bush Sr.